How to deliver quarantined email with exim

Jim Barber jim.barber at ddihealth.com
Wed Apr 2 00:43:59 IST 2008


I just resubmit the quarantined message like so:

	cat 1Jgjhp-0003fH-PS | exim -ti

However this assumes that you have your MailScanner set up to not check
messages that originate from the local host otherwise it will just get
quarantined again.

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Jim Barber
DDI Health


Kirk Lowery wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Julian Field
> <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Move them into /var/spool/exim/input, make sure they have exactly the
>>  same ownership, group and permissions as all the other files in there,
>>  and Exim should pick them up and deliver them.
>>  To hurry the process along, something like
>>  /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exit/exit_send.conf -Mc message-id-here
>>  should kick it into making a delivery attempt.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> Here's what happened:
> 
> delivering 1Jgjhp-0003fH-PS
> LOG: MAIN
>   Spool file 1Jgjhp-0003fH-PS-D not found
> 
> Is there something wrong with my conf file?
> 
> Kirk


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